5.18.2012

HELLO!! Just a little about us....

The Smore family started with us(M&M) meeting in big city Chicago
after growing up in small towns in completely different countries
(America-Morgan and Italia-Marco) our whole lives. It was love at
first sight <3 Five short months later we were saying 'I do' in a
beach city in Cali, where we eloped. After that it was Sayonara Chicago!
We packed up our Mustang convertible (only taking what fit in the tiny
trunk) and moved across the country to the south to seek a warm climate.
Upon arrival we were nomads looking for a new home. Once found, Ikea
was our biggest fan. Oh and we bought a quaker parrot we named Puffin :)

Fast-forward time to 1.5 years later, and I was meeting the Italian
in-laws for the first time. Shortly after that we would find out that we
were expecting our first baby and looking for a new house! We were HGTV
nerds and wanted a fixer-upper...so that we got. It was fun except poor
Marco had to do the majority of the work since I was put on bedrest due
to complications in pregnancy. You can find my full pregnancy story
here.

We weren't due to have the baby until September, but life is full of
suprises, right? Well July 5 was the day Lyla graced us with her
presence. She was the tiniest most beautiful thing we had ever seen. It was
way too early for her to be born, so she had to spend two extremely long
and agonizing months in the NICU. View her first year of life video here. View Lyla's second year of life in pictures on my old blog here.

Fast-forward time again to another year later and another trip to
Italy, and we found ourselves expecting again. I swear there is
something in that Italian water...anyway, I ran into some more
complications, and this time, the baby didn't make it. View my full
story here. Be sure to grab some tissues.

This marks the saddest and most painful point in our lives.

Writing through the whole process of losing the
baby and going through everything with Lyla was very therapeutic for me.

Fast-forward time a few months and two surgeries later, and here we
are expecting again, but this time before we left for Italy. Here is Lyla's site when she was in the NICU. I wrote daily, sharing the ups, downs, and emotions.

We
are excited and ready for this next journey in life. We will be making
room for baby marshmallow in the house and I will be working on lots of
new projects. Stay tuned!